No videos after upgrading to PinballX ver 6.99

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks for testing. i may have updated ffmpeg in that release, can you please look? Actually looks like no ffmpeg in the install. Could that be why? Ill have a look and, but from your log it does not even try to create a video. I cant see how it could be affected but I will test and see if I broke something unrelated to these changes. i had previously seen a compile issue where it uses sapi to say "recording video" but it is already in a try block. I will test it anyway.

I see no black screens here but am not able to test beyond my laptop right now. Oh wait I do see it. Good catch. Although I think  it is just slower loading the video.

[Tom Speirs]

I seem to have lost my post but I can confirm I have no issues creating videos with ffmpeg. Are you talking about the new NVidia App (The old game shadow is removed from nvidia drivers now)? I never tested that yet. I will look but it is unrelated to this. i seem to get the blame often that i broke things with new versions even though its something else. lol.

Here is another version. There were a couple of things to fix.

Hard for me to see about black screens between videos, the videos just load too quick and it also seem to be affected by monitor framerate. My laptop defaults to 480hz. Are you able to confirm it was different before on the same adapter with vmr 9?

 

PinballXSetup.zip

[keithhov]

Thanks I agree it’s just my setup on my cabinet ,I had success creating videos on my desktop computer.

I will test later today after work and follow up . 

[Tom Speirs]

Here is GameEx for testing.

 

GameExSetup.zip

[keithhov]

Making some progress......looks like ffmpeg.exe is the culprit.   I had an old version around 50mb...that one basically gave me the errors of not recording in the log....used a version thats around 97mb and that one lets me record again but having some consistency issues, trying a new version.

I am using gpu capture...the actual source captures look great but when they get moved into the the pinballx media folders the video are small file size mp4's that result in just a still video....dmd and backglass videos are fine though.

There is also a nvidia driver update today....will reluctantly install that later in hopes everything is working.

[keithhov]

Figured it all out...........for some reason videos did not record correctly unless it was a table using external dmd dll when I was using nvidia hardware capture......tried troubleshooting, eventually deleted the default source folder where nvidia stores the capture before it migrates to pinballx media folder.......no clue why but that was the fix.

All working well with 7.10, newer version of ffmpeg.exe and latest nvidia drivers.

[Tom Speirs]

I've tested and optimised the new video code as well as I can and just did a full release.

[Tom Speirs]

GameEx released too.

[Mike_da_Spike]

4 hours ago, Tom Speirs said:

I've tested and optimised the new video code as well as I can and just did a full release.

Thanks Tom. I'll test some this weekend. I just didn't have the energy to test this week.

[keithhov]

7.11 working well for me.... minimal or no black screen loading or exiting tables... only minor criticism is playfield video hangs for 2-3 seconds when the "logged in" text pops up.

 

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks for your help fellas.

I think the black screen is down to do disposing of the DirectX11 device and the videos.

i think i see it. Its mainly just a delay, yes?

PS: only on Nvidia for me. Looks like something else they broke!

ps 2: Seems okay now. Weird.